Compeat CEO and leadership

Kristi oversees product marketing strategy, competitive positioning, brand awareness, digital presence, customer retention, lead generation, inside sales, and internal and external communications.

With over 27 years of domestic and international strategic business and marketing experience, Kristi has a successful track record for building scalable SaaS revenue growth, empowering employee cultures and customer centric marketing strategies. Kristi was recently named Hospitality Technology (HT) magazine’s 2019 Top Women in Restaurant Technology Award Winner for Lifetime Achievement.

Prior to joining Compeat, Kristi served as CEO of Kaizen Consulting, a SaaS marketing consultant firm and previously served as SVP of Marketing for HotSchedules, formerly Red Book Connect. Before HotSchedules, Kristi served as a consultant to wireless global providers and as SVP of Marketing for InComm, a global technology innovator and provider of prepaid and payment solutions.

Kristi holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from University of South Florida. She resides in Atlanta with her husband and two children. Kristi enjoys athletic challenges, outdoor adventures, yoga and meditation, and dedicates much of her time to studying conscious capitalism success and mentoring young men and women in professional and personal growth.

Experienced Senior Finance Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the software as a service (SaaS) industry. Skilled in Budgeting, Analytics, Management Reporting, and Financial Planning.

I am an experienced Senior Executive with demonstrated history of high performance in Enterprise Software and Cybersecurity software development. Excel at Team & Executive Leadership, Technology Strategy, Process & Methodology, and Cross-Functional Collaboration to drive results by increasing employee engagement.I have more than two decades of experience leading geographically distributed teams building fault tolerant, high performance, scalable distributed and embedded systems. Technical Leader with experience in Architecture, Design and Product Management.Built world-class engineering teams through talent recruiting, coaching, mentoring, performance management and Business Transformation based on strategic planning.Expertise with ML, Document Imaging, Finance technologies, Mobile Technologies, VoIP Unified Communications, Messaging technologies and Fleet Management systems.Experienced CISO with Cybersecurity, Compliance and InfoSec background (ID Theft, PCI-DSS, SOC-2, HIPAA, GDPR, Pentest, OWASP).Experience in building products and SaaS platforms that involve Public/Private Cloud (Azure, AWS), big data, ReST APIs, Micro-service Architecture mobile and web applications.Experience in Board interactions and M&A efforts with associated transition execution.